Turn Your Hard Work Into a Visual Conversation
It can be easy to forget how valuable your journey is to the rest of the watershed community. Whether you hit a breakthrough in your monitoring data, found a creative way to engage a local neighborhood, or learned a lesson from a restoration project, your peers want to see it.
The Friday Night Poster Session at the 21st Annual Chesapeake Watershed Forum is one of the most energetic events of the weekend. It is a dedicated space to share your work visually, and the Alliance is officially seeking poster proposals.
Why Your Work Belongs in the Room
You don’t need a finished project to apply. The Forum is a space for continuous peer-to-peer learning. Sharing mid-project data, pilot initiatives, or “lessons learned” from an ongoing project is incredibly valuable to other practitioners who might be facing the same hurdles.
It is not just for technical field science. Visual storytelling is powerful across all of our priority tracks: 1) Restoration, Conservation, and Science, 2) Education, Engagement, and Advocacy, 3) Communications, and 4) Professional Development.
The atmosphere is conversational. This is not a rigid academic defense or a formal podium presentation. The Friday night session is an energetic evening where attendees wander the room at their own pace, allowing you to have casual, low-pressure, one-on-one chats with supportive peers.
Submitting a proposal takes less than five minutes.
Key Timeline and Submission Dates
Proposal Deadline:Â Friday, August 7, 2026, at 11:59 PM
Poster Session Date:Â Friday, November 13, 2026, at 7:00 PM
